Mergers & Acquisitions

In a letter, Authors United founder Douglas Preston urged AU writers “to throw their support behind the Authors Guild either by joining or making a contribution.”

In a letter sent out this morning, the leaders of the Kuhn Project and Zachary Shuster Harmsworth said that they are combining forces to form Aevitas Creative Management, a literary agency that will have over 20 agents and offices in three cities.

Simon & Schuster will acquire Adams Media, a nonfiction-focused publisher based in Avon, Mass., from F+W Media, according to a letter sent by S&S president and CEO Carolyn Reidy to staff on November 14. Adams Media's current v-p of books and content, Karen Cooper, will lead the Adams Media imprint at S&S as v-p and…

Many in the USA are today talking of trying to heal the profound rift between partisans in the general election. And there’s a similar line of reconciliation coming from the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). The organization has announced that its membership components have approved IDPF’s absorption into the World Wide Web Consortium, W3C.

Excitement of this kind is quite rare in the publishing industry. The last came a few years ago when Random House took over Penguin. And now this Amazon buyout of Westland has given the industry an interesting conversation beginner. Amazon had signaled their intent in February this year when they acquired minority stake in Westland…

Write A House, which has been giving away renovated homes in Detroit to emerging writers, is responding to the city's rebounding housing market by offering aspiring authors a free place to stay, not own.

Ten days after it unexpectedly announced it would close at the end of October, the hybrid publisher said it has reached an agreement in principle to sell the company.

While I initially thought the merger was a good idea, as a outside participant in the W3C-IDPF DIGIPUB-IG Portable Web Publications (PWP) project, I have first-hand exposure to the significant dangers this merger poses to the future of offline publishing. It is clear that the IDPF entered into this arraignment with the W3C before fully…

Sourcebooks has signed with Baker & Taylor, Melia Publishing Services, Copia and Vearsa to distribute its print and digital books in overseas markets.

Readerlink has acquired a range assets of Studio Fun, the children's publisher that had been known as Reader's Digest Children's Publishing.